Photo by Leilani Wertens. Wertens is a second year graduate student in photography at Columbia College Chicago, and this image is from a series on estate sales called “Forget Me Not.” In a statement about the project, Wertens writes:

“At estate sales, treasure seekers encounter once-beloved personal and utilitarian objects that lose their original meaning when stripped of their context. Through my arrangement of the spaces and possessions found in each home, I counteract the impersonal nature of an estate sale and the way it distances us from death.”

Photo by Adam Hester from his Playful Surroundings series. Hester has been working on this series in and around Minneapolis, where he’s based, as well as the Oregon Coast, Seattle and New Mexico.

Photo by Lincoln Barbour. This image of a hydrangea plant is from Barber’s ongoing Ides-of-May photoblog.

Photo by Stuart Gibson, a photographer from Tasmania, Australia. He shot this photo in North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii.